FeedHenry, which offers mobile app-building services for enterprises, plans to double its U.S. headquarters in Burlington, Mass., to 25 employees this year as it targets the North American market, said CEO Cathal McGloin in an interview.

The Ireland-based company offers mobile backend-as-a-service along with cloud-based mobile enterprise application tools. Overall, the company aims to simplify the development, deployment and management of mobile apps for enterprise.

The company has 60 employees, 10 of which are currently in the Burlington office.

Last year, FeedHenry's target market was health care companies, since mobile devices are becoming increasingly prevalent among doctors, McGloin said. The firm recently launched a HIPAA-compliant application that garnered a lot of interest, he said.

This year, the firm will focus on targeting U.S.-based sectors that use mobile technologies in field work, such as utilities, transportation and logistics, and manufacturing.

"We've done a lot of work in Europe in field service with special-purpose devices … so we have interesting use cases about how productivity in those companies went up because employees were happier to use their own Android or iPhone," he said.

Currently, 75 percent of FeedHenry's customers are based in Europe, McGloin said.

"(This year) is the year of our investment in the North American market," he said.

Spun out out of the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland in 2010, FeedHenry began operations in Massachusetts that same year.

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